So I don’t know if you guys know this about me but my parents are both huge Disney freaks (we actually have a Mickey Mouse-themed bathroom, but that’s another story) and basically have every Disney World travel guide published in the past ten years. This is my personal favorite - it tells you how to steal from the parks and where you can have public sex at the parks without getting caught and where you can buy drugs and other really depraved things you can do at Disney basically it’s the least moral piece of literature I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
It is a beautiful story with a beautiful message and it is told artfully. I don’t understand why people can’t just let it be that.
Look, Pocahontas is a great movie, but that doesn’t mean it’s not problematic. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. And it’s a little inappropriate to compare fairy tales to real history—-like, the relationship between European settlers and Native Americans was not a fairy tale, it’s history. So Disney can change it and make a great story or whatever—-“It is a beautiful story with a beautiful message and it is told artfully” Yes! True, but: “I don’t understand why people can’t just let it be that”. Because it’s not just that? It’s also many other things? Anyone with a questioning mind should be able to look into the things they loved in their childhood and see the flaws?
I agree with Cannon. And there is no pop up indication that reminds movie watchers that this is not the true story. This retelling is not a retelling in the way beauty and the beast is. Not only was that always a fictional tale, but the changes of Pocahontas as specifically rooted in a colonized way of viewing native cultures (see here and here2 for more details on specific problemtic cultural and historical problems).
I think it’s too blasse to go say “read a book and learn the truth” etc. If it’s a movie about a historical event, the truth should not be so hidden so as to be almost the complete opposite of the movie portrayal. People cannot be expected- and should not be expected- to google the historical context of every movie they see. Would it be nice if they did? Probably. Would it be great if schools spent more time examining the non-white, POC history of American experiences, before and after the American Revolution? Certainly.
But in examining how movies like this operate in real life, as opposed to idealized US Americana, Disney’s Pocahontas IS the dominant understanding of how that moment in history went down. That IS what happens when you tell a story about a culture that is often ignored except to be denigrated or used as visual props- you end up being the accepted narrative, because all others have been systematically silenced. And, again, given how this movie feeds into historical white washing and native erasure and presumptions and stereotypes of native cultures, this is very troubling.
It’s not just a movie… it was never just a movie
On May 1, Disney filed trademark applications to secure ‘Dia de los Muertos’ across multiple platforms for an upcoming Pixar film.COLONIALISM FUCKERS, IT’S STILL FUCKING REAL
ARE YOU SHITTING ME
I WILL SLAY YOU DISNEY, YOU AND ALL YOUR RACIST COLONIAL BULLSHIT
i hate you disney
Herman@s, please sign the petition to stop this and boost!
I’m not sure if this is true, but I just read an article that said that Disney withdrew trying to trademark “Dia de los Muertos”?
Can anyone confirm this?
It seems it’s true, thanks to the outrage and backlash, they have withdrawn their attempt. However, the fact that this was actually an idea to begin with is abhorrent and insulting. Disney still wants to make a movie ‘inspired’ by this day, I can’t speak for anyone else, but I for one remain skeptical of their intentions and of the message this movie will give to people about Mexican culture.
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? JFC
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that in the Chinese version of Disney’s Mulan, the fake name she gives is “Ping”, but her family name “Fa” in English is “Hua” in Chinese, therefore her full name is “Hua Ping”, which is literally “Flower Vase”, and that’s why Shang is so bewildered because it’s a silly name.
but OP how could you not tell them the best part
“hua ping”/flower vase is chinese slang for “camp gay”
can you paint with all the colors of the wind
alright picasso calm down
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Pocahontas is complete fiction. I get it. It is a Disney fairy tale. Not an actual interpretation of what happened in real life. That was never what it was meant to be. Read the original interpretation of ANY Disney fairy tale. NONE of them follow the original story. Pocahontas is a Disney fairy tale like the rest. That is all.